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U19 FIBA WC's: Emus vs Serbia

Reckon DJ has modelled his game on Goulding's?

I'd be surprised if the D wasn't the influence of AC Tim Mallon. It's the same style he has been promoting with the NSWC men and the results there speak for themselves.. Just a thought.

@Greggo, I agree, we choked Serbia out of scoring in that final quarter with good D for sure. That said though, we will need additional help inside with McKay back to ensure we don't get hurt in the post should we continue defending this way.

Foul trouble on our bigs again will hurt us against a team with decent post players and I am sure our opposition is going to test us there...

Actually, if you look at the shooting chart and statistics, DJ took 19 attempts for his 6 makes, but most of them were mid range 2's, not as many 3's in this game as usual.

I think some criticism may be due to the times he drives into the arc and in stead of kicking it or dishing it he still jacks up the shot, which often ends up under pressure or off balance.

Now, we all know he can hit those too, but I guess when you look at the way we played in this game DJ could have made a few better decisions, I think he has that shooter's mentality though and coaches seem to let him thrive on it because he does get it done more often than not.

Agree with Abi^^ that Tom Wilson's game needs to lift if we are to take Turkey to the cleaners.

White, McVeigh and Clarke however were driving against Serbia all game and helped put them back on their heels a bit. Whether they did it well or not, they can develop those skills in college, but their efforts helped us get over the line in this game...

Oh, and WMW I believe is around 6' 4" tall or thereabouts, at least it appeared to be about that last time I stood next to him but he could be nudging 6' 5" by now, who knows...

They can grow fast these teenagers!

Must admit, I missed this one, but also got to watch the replay. We gutsed it out didn't we...

Still quite a few indiviual attitudes towards their play for me, especially when we go to broken play or late in a shot clock.

I will agree that we have a team oriented role playing style of thing going on, but some of the individual stuff that goes on isn't coming off.

Some of the transition play in the first 3 quarters wasn't bad though, could see more of that for sure...

Serbia were poor, I am sure they will do some soul searching of their own after this. They missed some very gettable baskets, especially their post players who I feel let them down when it mattered.

So, against a better outfit we need to be more team oriented and get that extra pass out there and just stay confident IMHO...

Good luck to the team in the next round, I would love to see us down Turkey and get some revenge for the Boomers, that would be nice indeed!

As for NBA prospects, they need to show what they can do in college first. Certainly some NBL propsects though, so this is where I would focus rather than a less than 0.001% chance of an NBA contract.

I want the NBL to prosper, so we can get these young players coming through and playing in a top competition here first and foremost.

I predicted pre-tournament that a top 8 finish for the Emu's would be an awesome result, especially given their lack of height. They have now achieved that. The medal rounds are within sight now.

I still think the team would have been better off with Froling and possibly even Vague. We will now never know.

All quarter final games and beyond are now being streamed via FIBA's livebasketball.tv.

They are offering it for free.

Good to see we were able to establish some transition ball.

I fell asleep in the 4th but we were holding that double digit lead nicely.

Wow! 69-56 upset win!

Emus advance to quarter-finals after upset over Serbia (Includes links to replay and box score)

Leading the way for the Emus was Jack McVeigh with 18 points and 12 rebounds, whilst Dejan Vasiljevic and Kyle Clark both chipped in with 15 points apiece.

Go to the FIBA site

http://www.fiba.com/world/u19/2015/Australia-v-Serbia---Round-of-16---Live-Stream---2015-FIBA-U19-World-Championship

Staying up but as much to watch Serbia.

I don't hold much hope from what I have seen so far.

Hoping I'm wrong

well done and mia with 16 pts in a close game.

next week v canberra will be interesting